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Ian McLagan, founding keyboardist for the '60s British rock band the Small Faces (known in the '70s as the Faces), died Wednesday in Austin, Texas. He was 69. McLagan - a 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee - suffered a stroke at his home on Tuesday evening and died in the hospital today. He had been scheduled to open a tour with Nick Lowe in Minneapolis tonight. Known universally as "Mac" to his friends and fans, the diminutive, high-spirited pianist and organist was also a well-traveled sideman who worked in the studio and on stage with such notables as his Faces colleague Rod Stewart, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Bonnie Raitt, among...

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Ian McLagan, founding keyboardist for the '60s British rock band the Small Faces (known in the '70s as the Faces), died Wednesday in Austin, Texas. He was 69.
McLagan - a 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee - suffered a stroke at his home on Tuesday...

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